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Default Good ideas from overseas (OT bit of fun)



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djc writes:
On 06/02/13 14:00, whisky-dave wrote:
Esculators at tube stations only coming on when people were using
them.
Think it was a light sensor triggered as you apporach the stairs.
Stockholm 1985.


Escalators at Genève Airport (and Zürich) that take luggage trolleys,
from baggage hall to railway platform on one trolley.


Been in a Paris multi-storey supermarket with escalators which take
your shopping trolley up and down too. It looked very old though.


One of our shopping malls with a supermarket above the car park does that.